he will not let me get my breath, but fills me with bitterness.
How long will you not look away from me, nor leave me alone till I swallow my spit?
He has filled me with bitterness; he has sated me with wormwood.
For the moment all discipline seems painful rather than pleasant, but later it yields the peaceful fruit of righteousness to those who have been trained by it.
so I say, “My endurance has perished; so has my hope from the Lord.” Remember my affliction and my wanderings, the wormwood and the gall!
surely against me he turns his hand again and again the whole day long.
Afflicted and close to death from my youth up, I suffer your terrors; I am helpless. Your wrath has swept over me; your dreadful assaults destroy me. They surround me like a flood all day long; they close in on me together. You have caused my beloved and my friend to shun me; my companions have become darkness.
Your wrath lies heavy upon me, and you overwhelm me with all your waves. Selah
Look away from me, that I may smile again, before I depart and am no more!”
“As God lives, who has taken away my right, and the Almighty, who has made my soul bitter,
“Why is light given to him who is in misery, and life to the bitter in soul,
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